Social Justice and Peace Studies 1026F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Christian Culture, Indian Act
21 Oct 2018
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Indigenous people were on this land for thousands of years before europeans arrived. Some had highly developed permanent settlements of fishers and farmers: there were self-sufficient and self-governing, with their own traditions and own sources of authority. Indigenous peoples had a very close relationship to the land. > they tended not to think of the land as private property to be owned, the opposite rather; that people belong to the land. > citize(cid:374): (cid:862)this is (cid:373)y la(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d ou(cid:396) go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) > p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)o(cid:396)d: (cid:373)akes fi(cid:396)st (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s people go i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le, ig(cid:374)o(cid:396)es the fa(cid:272)t they"(cid:396)e (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e conflict or disagreement on this idea. > colonialism is about replacing the many, many smaller regions of native"s (cid:449)ith the la(cid:396)ge(cid:396) p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d territories we know of. E(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)ist"s to(cid:396)y: before the 17th century, people were poor and miserable, largely because feudalism and other land- based economic systems were so inefficient. Around this time in england people started doing things differently.
